Paint



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WVALTER JAM ES REYNOLDS, OF AUSTIN, TEXAS.

PAINT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 553,966, dated February 4, 1896. Application filed January 2, 1895. Serial No. 533,613. (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER JAMES REY- NOLDS, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Austin, in the county of Travis and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Aqueous Paint; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

This invention has reference to an improved process for treating clay or mud taken from Lake McDonald, at Austin, Texas; and it consists in the various steps of the process by which a hard surface is obtained, sticking and adhering to any known article so as to make it a valuable paint, as will be set forth more fully hereinafter.

In carrying out my invention the clay or mud as taken from the lake in the raw state is processed and used as follows, viz:

No. 1. Take two quarts of raw mud or clay as taken from lake; then dissolve two ounces of frozen glue, or What is termed f urnitureglue, in one pint of hot water; then dissolve two ounces of resin in one pint of hot Water with one-half ounce of soda-ash; this dissolves resin; then mix the frozen glue and resin together, making one quart of the mixed solution; then add one quart of linseed-oil or other oil; then add one-half ounce of sodaash; this saponifies the oil with the glue and resin solution; then take, the Whole mixture and put in mixing-machine, add color to suit, and mill for thirty minutes. This produces a gallon of aqueous paint.

No. 2. Take two quarts of mud or clay as taken from lake; then dissolve four ounces of frozen glue in one quart of boiling-hot water; then add one quart of oil; then put the above together and add one ounce of soda-ash to saponify the oil with above mixture,add color, and mill for thirty minutes. This produces one gallon of aqueous paint.

No. 3. Take two quarts of mud as taken from lake; then dissolve five ounces of frozen glue in two quarts of boiling-hot water; then add one ounce of soda-ash to out mixture,

add color, and mill for thirty minutes. This produces one gallon of aqueous paint.

By either of the above processes I impregnate the clay or mud in such a way that it forms a hard surface that will not crack, peel, or wash off, as it would otherwise do when used as paint.

The object of this invention and discovery is to treat as above the mud or clay and make avaluablc paint that otherwise cannot be ob tained.

It is obvious that the frozen glue may be left out and resin dissolved with hot water and soda-ash made to take the place of glue.

Resin may also be dissolved in oil and added in various ways to original mud or clay.

Other ingredients-such as turpentine,zinc, tar, varnish, alum, concentrated linseed-oil, and Prussian bluemay be used if desired.

The analysis of the mud or clay, set forth above, is as follows:

Lead oxide 10.00

Iron oxide 25.00

Alumina 30. 00

Calcium oxide 5.00

Silica 10.00

Carbonic acid 5.00

Organic matter, water, &c 15.00

Having thus described my invention and discovery, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A paint consisting of a mixture of glue, soda-ash, resin, linseed-oil and the hereinbefore-described mud in the proportions sub stantially as described.

2. Apaint consisting of glue, soda-ash, and the hereinbefore-described mud in combination with suitable vehicles in the proportions substantially as described.

XV ALTER JAMES REYNOLDS. lVitnesses:

JOHN DOWELL, O. P. NoEBY. 

